A.cause to waste away, “αἱ συλλήψεις ἀ. τὰ σώματα” Sor. 1.30, cf. Chor.p.22 B.; “τὴν ἀκμὴν τῶν αἰσθήσεων” Callistr.Stat. 2; “ἡδονὰς τὰς τὸ θυμοειδὲς -ούσας” Philostr.VA7.4; obliterate from memory, Chor.Milt.19:—Pass., waste, wither away, die away, “ἡ ῥητορικὴ ἐκείνη ἀ.” Pl.Tht.177b; “αἱ κατὰ τὸ σῶμα ἡδοναὶ ἀ.” Id.R.328d; of a tranquil death, X.Ap.7, cf. Plu.Num.21; of comets, “ἀπομαρανθέντες κατὰ μικρπὸν ἠφανίσθησαν” Arist.Mete.343b16; of wind, die down, ib.367b11; “ἡ φύσις ἀ.” Ocell.1.12, etc.
ἀπομα^ρ-αίνω ,
Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. A Greek-English Lexicon. revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones. with the assistance of. Roderick McKenzie. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1940.
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